Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921) and Kevin Fox (1921-c.2006) 12 SKETCH DESIGNS FOR PROPOSED MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL OF FOUR PROVINCES HOUSE gouache; (each mounted but unframed) most with typed label on reverse detailing title and description of design; held within a card portfolio case with typed label inside cover detailing title of collection 9.75 by 16.75in. (24.77 by 42.55cm) Titles include; The Assize of Bread, 1384, Baking in Ancient Ireland, Bread Riots, 1578, Bread for the Poor, 1650, Parade of the Guilds, 1750, Lord Mayor`s Procession, 1801, Rise of the Journeymen, 1820, Trades Procession 1875, Ralahine, Connolly in Belfast, 1910, The Trades Council, 1913. The Bakers Union of Ireland opened their new headquarters, Four Provinces House, in 1947. It housed a bakery school and an 8,000 volume library. Patrick Scott was later, in 1947, to produce a mural for the restaurant at the top of Busáras, commissioned by the architect Michael Scott. (£650-£970 approx)
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Locomotive Nameplate BRICKLEHAMPTON HALL. Ex GWR 4-6-0 `Modified Hall` Class Locomotive number 6973, built Swindon October 1947 and allocated new to Old Oak Common. Remained in the London area for many years and ended up at Bristol Barrow Road from where withdrawal took place in August 1965 and subsequently cut up at Cashmores, Newport in November 1965. The back is clearly stamped with usual Swindon identification and the letter `R` indicating the right-hand side. A magnificent, `extended backplate`, half-beaded nameplate measuring an impressive 76½ “ in length and having the absolute distinction of being the longest name Hall ever to be carried, 18 letters in total. Totally ex loco condition and ready to take pride of place in any collection. The other side is not known so this could be the only opportunity ever to own the longest Hall name. Note: Bricklehampton Hall is a mere stones throw from Pershore in the heart of the Worcestershire countryside near Elmley Castle. It was built in 1848 for the Woodward Family in fine Italian style. Set in 30 acres, it is now a retirement home.
Nameplate WESTWOOD HALL together with the matching cast brass Cabside Numberplate 4978. Ex GWR 4-6-0 Hall Class Locomotive built at Swindon Works in February 1930 and allocated new to Plymouth Laira. By 1948 had wandered to Old Oak and stayed in that area with a move to Southall in 1950. Further moves through the 50`s saw allocations to Westbury and Taunton. Withdrawn from Severn Tunnel Junction in September 1964 and cut up at Hayes, Bridgend. The nameplate has been tenderly polished over the years and retains the original splasher paint. The cabside too has been polished over the years but has been professionally, face restored. It is stamped with class details in the top rim and boiler details in the lower rim. A wonderful set indeed.
Velocette Viper Bike Make: Velocette Bike Model: Viper Bike Reg No.: Un-Reg Bike Frame No.: RS17499 Bike Engine No.: VR3016 Bike Colour: Black Velocette Viper 1956-69 348cc sweet and solid single 29 bhp @7000 rpm. Not much more can be said about these well engineered motorcycles which have a strong and avid following of discerning enthusiasts who appreciate good old fashioned style and quality; performance and economy too with 88mph and 58 mpg attainable, on a good day. The Viper, in it`s usual lustrous black, gold and chrome finish like the majority of Velos, is the sports version of the 350 options produced at Hall Green. A cooking 350 MAC roadster with quite a bit more spicy performance, an example of `same recipe, a bit more bite in a more attractive package` if you like, and easy to convert to Venom 500cc specification if more poke is required. Hard to find now, some came with the then fashionable glassfibre engine enclosures, making cleaning easier but cooling less so, and consequently discarded. The Velo is a machine for the individualist, but not so mechanically quirky and difficult as folk lore might suggest, if well set up and scrupulously maintained they are a delight to own but certain idiosyncrasies must be allowed for. Velocette owners are extremely well catered for by the Velo Owners Club Spares Scheme, numerous marque specialists and suppliers so spare parts are rarely a problem, if costly. The Viper in today`s sale is listed as an earlier restoration with many new parts fitted, details are sketchy at time of writing but the description of `all good` and `runs well` would seem to be correct. The bike is not registered and the frame is RS 17499 with engine no. VR 3016. Velocettes of all description are much sought after in today`s market, but still represent good value and are a sound investment for the collector or alternatively an interesting prospect for the active rider. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
1934 Velocette KSS Bike Year: 1934 Bike Make: Velocette Bike Model: KSS Bike Reg No.: Un-Reg Bike Frame No.: KTL4661 Bike Engine No.: KSS5058 Bike Colour: Black The overhead cam 350 cc Velocette engine came into being in 1925, and within twelve months had won it`s first Junior TT, fitted in a new frame designated KSS. The effect of the win made the machine so popular and demand so phenomenal that Velocette had to invest in a new factory to keep pace. Situated at Hall Green, the Birmingham facility then became the home of Velocette for many years to follow. K series engines were produced here at the rate of around 1000 a year until the thirties depression so affected sales of luxury and performance bikes that the company had to refocus efforts on the less expensive 2 stroke and overhead valve powered roadsters. Over the years these GTP (2 stroke) and MAC (ohv) machines became almost equal in performance to the `cammy` models which had to be upgraded to Mk2 form in 1935 to maintain the performance edge. Always expensive to manufacture and not easy to maintain the KTS (touring) and KSS (sporting) versions continued in production subsidised by sales of the less expensive models, but giving the company a broader range of products to offer the public. This unregistered Velocette KSS 350 OHC is one of the last Mk 1`s and was discovered in Wales in 2010. A 1934 model it looks to be in pristine condition and has been subjected to a comprehensive restoration over the last two years, having many new parts fitted including piston, oil pump etc. and is stated to be in good running order. The vendor reports that the machine is all good and a competition gearbox has been fitted which is stamped with the original identifying numbers. This historic motorcycle is recorded to have been sold by distributors Vic Challenor Motorcycles of Stoke to first owner Mr W.S.Platt of Burslem. It would seem an ideal opportunity for a new owner to experience the joys of vintage motorcycling on a most excellent product of the pre-war British Motorcycle Industry. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
A Chinese Cizhou painted figure of Zhenwu, Ming dynasty (1368-1634), the emperor seated in brown flowing robes with a snake coiled tortoise at his feet, on an indented rectangular plinth, hollow base, 29cm high See Harrison-Hall, 2001, page 442 plate 14:15, for a stoneware figure of Zhenwu and a discussion of the model. According to Harrison-Hall, Zhenwu was a perfected ruler of the north star, who assists the sage ruler and was the patron god and guardian of the Ming dynasty. Both the Hongwu and Yongle emperors attributed their battle honours and power to Zhenwu. As the highest ranking in the pantheon of the gods in the Ming period, it was believed that Zhenwu could save men from natural disasters, grant sons, prolong lives and protect merchants from calamites. A very similar figure was sold Christies New York, 18th September 2003, lot 289, Property from the Collection of Mr and Mrs James E. Breece III. Christies note that a near identical figure of Zhenwu was unearthed in Miyun county, Beijing, and is now in the Beijing Cultural Relics Research Institute. WE DO NOT STATE CONDTION IN THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION – Before bidding please ensure you are satisfied with the condition of this lot – For details of condition please contact the auctioneer.
A Davenport stone china tureen base, early 19th Century, printed and coloured with flamingos amidst chinoiserie flowers, the rectangular body with lions head handles, underglaze blue mark to base, together with an English porcelain polychrome floral decorated meat platter, blue printed mark `Britannicus Dresden China` to reverse, a pottery footed circular bowl, a New Hall Boumier Ware oval dish and a cheese dish cover in the form of a cow`s head (minor faults).
An album containing approximately 97 photographic postcards, the majority portraits or of social history interest, including a postcard titled `33rd Batt R.F.A. Cooks and Dining Hall Staff, March 1917`, together with a souvenir pamphlet of `Miss Jean Batten`s England to New Zealand Flight, October, 1936`.
Queen Anne embroidered bindings. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches, Oxford, printed by the University-Printers, 2 vols., 1701, collates complete according to Oxford University’s copy, general and New Testament letterpress titles present, with addn. eng. title to each, printed in double-column with printed marginalia, red-ruled throughout, several corners cleanly creased, f2 in vol. 2 with small neat paper patch over lower red rule border, but internally in excellent condition, marbled endpapers, early armorial bookplate of Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield (1781-1835), sumptuous contemp. embroidered binding of scarlet velvet worked in high relief in gold and silver thread and wire, and some coloured threads, with an elaborate overall design incorporating the monogram of Queen Anne in the centre, topped by a crown (with beading), surrounded by a scalloped frame entwined with volutes and tulips, and the rose and thistle emblem at the centre of each side, with scrolling banner above and below lettered ‘Gloria Inexcelsis Deo’ and ‘Omnia De Super’ respectively (now only legible on rear covers), with semi-circular sunburst at top, and a cherub in each corner, the spines divided by embroidered raised bands into nine compartments, each with tulips and fleur-de-lys radiating from a central quatrefoil (spines a little threadbare in places), remants of silk ties, folio in 6s, 48 x 31cm (19 x 12.25ins). Darlow & Moule 678; Herbert 867. An important pair of embroidered royal bindings in remarkably good condition, bearing the exclusive motto of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, ‘Omnia Desuper’. Anne (1665-1714) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8th March 1702. On 1st May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain; the thistle and rose emblem, with the two flowers emanating from one stem, is a symbol of this historic event. The motto ‘Omnia Desuper’ is unique to the Worshipful Company of Broderers, and was noted as being in use in the 1633-34 Heralds’ Visitation of London record of the Company’s arms (College of Arms Ms: 2C24/217). The crest of the Broderers Company is ‘On a Wreath Argent and Gules the Holy Dove Argent displayed membered and beaked Gules upon a Roundel Azure radiated Or’. The semi-circular sunburst at the top of each cover resembles the bottom of a ‘Roundel Azure radiated Or’, and therefore may be a further allusion to the Broderers. Like her distant cousin, Elizabeth, Anne survived religious tumult. Though her father, mother, and stepmother were all Catholics, Anne was raised in the Church of England at the behest of her uncle, King Charles II. When her father, James II, lost the throne in the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688 because of his Catholic leanings, Anne had only to wait her turn to succeed her sister and brother-in-law, the Protestant Mary and William. After Anne’s reign, the Church of England was firmly established. Despite seventeen pregnancies, Anne died without surviving children and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. Edward Harbord, Baron Suffield, of Gunton Park, Norfolk, and Middleton Hall, Lancashire, represented Great Yarmouth and Shaftesbury in the House of Commons. He was a radical politician, later becoming a strong advocate in the House of Lords for the abolition of slavery, and a campaigner for prison reform. (2)
![LABOUR PARTY. THE STAR ALBUM [OF] 48 POST CARDS [OF] PIONEERS OF BRITISH LABOUR..... ALL BEING MEMBERS OF THE 1906 PARLIAMENT](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10086/2851300/490-2012323102614_468x382.jpg)
LABOUR PARTY. THE STAR ALBUM [OF] 48 POST CARDS [OF] PIONEERS OF BRITISH LABOUR..... ALL BEING MEMBERS OF THE 1906 PARLIAMENT SECOND EDITION, LINEN BACKED RED CARD COVERS, WAF AND MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED EPHEMERA, INCLUDING SEVERAL DAVID LEVINE CALENDARS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND BOOKS, ETC ++ Some including the first, scarceThe David Levine Calendar, The New York Review of Books: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 (2), 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 (2), 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009TLS The Times Literary Supplement 2007 calendarThe Star Album containing 48 post cards depicting Pioneers of British LabourMrs Broom`s Suffragette photographs The Kodak Magazine Nov 1930Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, German photographs of the 1930`sIN `T VERLEDEN LIGT HET HEDENDIE KAISERSTADT BERLIN CHARLOTTENBURG UND POTSDAMThe Tatler and Bystander, Sept 19 1945, Jan 20 1943The Bystander, Oct 5 1938The Adoration of The Soldiers, Emile Cammaerts/Louis RaemaekersBombed London a collection of 38 drawings by Hanslip FletcherScraps and Sketches, Geo CruikshankThe Absent - Minded Beggar by Rudyard KiplingTom Eckersley ephemera: London transport Museum/post cards2 `Giles` Christmas cardsTHE DAY - DER TAGTHE CAUSE OF LABOUR IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD- Christmas cardVanity Fair cartoon: Sovereigns no.1 Sept 4 1869, Sovereigns no.2 Sept 18 1869, Sovereigns no.3 Oct 9 1869, Sovereigns no.4 Oct 16 1869, Sovereigns no.5 Oct 30 1869, Sovereigns no.8 Jan 7 1871Vanity Fair cartoon: Statesmen no.71 Jan 14 1871, Statesmen no.152 Aug 23 1873Supplement to the Spectator, Feb 28 1931 - A self-made man, Sir Oswald MosleyNewspaper double page - THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WARSmall quantity/part book, Fables I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, - Cassell`s MagazineSmall cloth Japanese erotic book
An interesting autograph book belonging to a Miss Clouting, one of the invited guests at a civic luncheon at the Town Hall Ipswich on 26 June 1930, on the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales. The Prince was invited to attend the Wolsey Pageant and to open new Airport at Ipswich. Ipswich, along with Great Yarmouth, Sheringham and Kings Lynn suffered with bombing from Zeppelin LZ38 commanded by Erich Linnarz in 1915. This small book contains the future Kings autograph as Edward R, dated 26-V1-30. It also contains many other signatures of important people to the owner. Also the lot contains an invite to the luncheon and a table layout. GC illustrated on Plate 13.
CAINE, Hall, editor (1853–1931). King Albert`s Book. A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World. New York: Hearst`s International Library Co., n.d. [ca 1915]. 4to. Photographic frontispiece plate of King Albert and 25 illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham. Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, W.r. Richmond, and others (one mounted plate inexpertly trimmed, a few mounted plates with minor creases at corners). Original gray cloth, decorated in blind and lettered in white on front cover and spine (spine letters rubbed, some wear at spine ends). Sold to benefit the World War I Belgian relief fund, this work also includes literary contributions by Andrew Carnegie, Rudyard Kipling, President Taft, Gertrude Atherton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and numerous others. Minimum shipping costs apply, please request quote before bidding.
E Hall-a set of six hand coloured stippled engravings of the Melton Mowbray Hunt, no.1 `Going to Cover`, no.2 `The Meet`, no.3 `Breaking Cover`, no.4 `Taking the Shine out of a New Stultz`, no.5 `Taking the Gate at the Hinge Post whilst Snob Walks Thro and Thro`, no.6 `The Cream of the Thing`, 21x26cm, framed and glazed (6) (illustrated)
Sarah Henrietta Purser HRHA (1848-1943) WOMAN WITH FAN oil on canvas 85.09 by 66.04cm., 33.5 by 26in. P "The collection of the Artist; Her Estate Sale, Mespil House, Dublin, 1943; Private collection; `The Sarah Purser Sale`, Adams, 12 December 2006, lot 9; Where purchased by the present owner" thought to have been exhibited at `Pictures Old and New by Sarah Purser ARHA`, Engineers Hall, Dawson Street, Dublin, 1923, catalogue no. 80 [price £50-0-0]
Holgate (David). New Hall, pub. Faber, 1987, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, together with Berthoud (Michael), A Compendium of British Cups, 1st ed., 1990, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., both somewhat damp soiled, folio, plus Walton (Peter), Creamware and Other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds. A Catalogue of the Leeds Collection, 1st ed., 1976, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., folio, and Coysh (A.W. and Henrywood, R.K.), The Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery 1780-1880, 2 vols., Antique Collectors` Club, reprinted, 2001, numerous col. and b & w illusts., both orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and other ceramics reference, all 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j. (3 shelves)
An early 19th Century porcelain part tea service of New Hall shape painted with flowers, leaves and branches in coloured enamels within moulded borders and floral painted reserves and comprising teapot and cover on stand, twin-handled sucrier and cover, milk jug, slop bowl, nine teacups and eight saucers, six further coffee cups and two circular plates, painted mark "1985" (ILLUSTRATED)
TWO NEW HALL TEAPOTS AND COVERS of serpentine outline and straight sided, enamelled with flower sprays and sprigs beneath a pink ribbon or with the `knitting` pattern, 14cm h, painted N186 or No 195, c1800 ++First teapot - cover and handle broken and restuck, second teapot with filled chip on the foot rim and cracked
18th Century English moulded lozenge shaped teapot, having painted iron-red and blue decoration, base with painted number 141, possibly Factory Y, 12.5cm high together with a Flight & Barr teapot and stand with gilt highlighted orange bands, 17.25cm high a New Hall oval teapot with moulded wrythened body and painted foliate decoration, base with number 311, 18.25cm high and a New Hall two handled sucriere and cover having orange painted ribbon and swag decoration, base with number 455, 12.5cm high
A forged iron domestic `great chamber clock`. Unsigned, German/Swiss, late 16th century, The two train movement with forged wheels, a mixture of lantern and standard-leaf pinions, wooden winding barrels with English style sprung clicks to the great wheels and separate wheels driven via lantern pinions for key winding, the going train with verge escapement regulated by foliot complete with curser weights, the strike train with nag`s head lifting and countwheel (driven via teeth cut to the inside of the rim) controlling the hours sounded via a dragon headed hammer on a lugged bell supported above the frame, the 11.5 x 9 inch rectangular painted single-handed dial now with starburst decorated centre within cream ground Gothic Roman numeral chapter ring with winged cherub head painted decoration to lower angles and ribbon banner bearing Gothic script Wenn`s ubel geht habich Seduld, Herzag ich nit Io bringts mir huld to upper margin, the frame composed of one-piece forged upper and lower rings secured to the angled strip corner posts via baton-headed rivets, the upper terminals of the corner uprights narrowing and curving outwards and applied with shield shaped finials, the base with outswept feet, with winding key and two stone weights, (dial, escapement and superstructure with restoration) the frame 50cm (19.75ins) high, 34cm (13.5ins) wide and 42cm (16.5ins) deep, height including bell 66cm (22ins); supported on a purpose made welded steel stand, 204cm (80.5ins) high overall. The current lot can be compared to a similar lot sold at Sotheby`s, New York MASTERPIECES FROM THE TIME MUSEUM, PART FOUR, VOLUME 1 13th October 2004, lot 500. A related but incomplete example was sold in these rooms on 6th September 2011, lot 113. The presence of a dial indicates that the current lot was designed to be installed where it could be seen, however the overall relatively large size of the frame suggests that it was made to furnish a large interior space such as the Great Hall of a substantial house. The design and layout of the movement with nag`s head lifting, shaped cam for overlift and teeth cut to the inside of the countwheel to the strike train is typical of Germanic practice of the second half of the 16th century.
A New Hall commode shaped teapot, cover and stand, painted in the Chinese Export style, the teapot with painted pattern no. N191, circa 1790; and a pair of Worcester blue and white plates printed with the `Pine Cone` pattern, 17.5cm diameter, crescent marks, circa 1780 (see illustration on website).
A NEW HALL TEAPOT, COVER AND STAND OF SILVER SHAPE AND ENAMELLED WITH A LOOSE SPRAY AND SCATTERED FLOWERS BENEATH AN ENTWINED IRON RED RIBBON WITH ROSETTES ALTERNATING WITH FLOWERS, TEAPOT AND COVER 15CM H, PAINTED 476, C1800 ++ Decoration around the outermost part of the border of the stand rubbed in places. Localised wear to the puce decoration around the rim of the aperture of the teapot and also on the handle
* David Loggan, British 1635-1692- "Collegium Exoniense"; engraving, 29.5x42cm: James Ryman, publisher, early/mid 19th century- "Hall of Exeter College, Oxford", publ 1838; engraving, 24x29.5cm: Andrew Johnston, British, 18th century- "A New Map of the North Part of Scotland", from Camden`s Britannia 1722; engraving, 36x45cm: William Dickson, British 1746-1823- "An Angel Carrying the Spirit of a Child in Paradise", after Wm Peters; hand coloured stipple engraving printed in colours, 56x40cm: After Sir Joshua Reynolds, British 1723-1792- `Angel`s Heads`; photogravure printed in sepia, 40x35cm, (5)
A collection of porcelain and pottery reference books including The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain" by John Sandon two books on New Hall several books on Spode and blue & white including "Spode - Copeland - Spode the works and its people" by Vega Wilkinson "Cats in English Porcelain" Derby porcelain and two books on Liverpool porcelain."
A NEW HALL TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE enamelled with white flowers and green leaves on a broad orange band of gilt foliage, oval teapot and cover 16cm h, c1805 (17) Pattern No 672. ++Teapot and cover in fine condition with slight wear to the gilding. Sucrier with minor descending hairline crack and an amateur repair to one of the loop handles. One saucer cracked, another chipped, a third with faint star crack, the others with slight stacking wear as to be expected. One coffee can cracked, one or two of the cups with slight wear to the gilding but above average and undamaged
A COALPORT PLATE painted by John Randall with mallard ducks, further birds perched on the crests of the continuous gilt scroll of the border, in lobed gilt dentil rim, 23.5cm diam, c1860 and a New Hall moulded dessert plate, printed and enamelled with a basket of fruit, printed circular mark, painted 1478, c1820 (2) ++Coalport plate with slight wear and a few minor glaze scratches only. New Hall plate in fine condition
A New Hall Porcelain Tea and Coffee Service, circa 1810, printed en grisaille with mothers and children within broad gilt formal foliate borders, comprising teapot, cover and stand, sucrier and cover, milk jug, slop bowl, saucer dish, twelve teacups, twelve coffee cups and twelve saucers, pattern no.1147, painted marks in black (44)
* Bader (Group Captain Sir Douglas, 1910-1982). `Bader Talks to John Frayn Turner`,ten privately recorded Grundig cassette tapes now transferred on to two CDs, being interviews with Douglas Bader, Thelma Bader and a few others, conducted by the author John Frayn Turner some time during the last couple of years of Bader`s life, included in this lot is Turner`s transcript of the interview with Bader plus all Turner`s transcripts of his research tapes for his biography of Bader first published in 1995, together with a group of signed letters from most of the interviewees including Kenneth More, Alec Guiness, Henry Longhurst, Lord Shawcross, Lord Westmorland, John Addison, Hugh Dundas, Peter Townsend, Johnnie Johnson, Roy Welensky, Gus Walker, Denis Crowley-Milling, Alan Deere, John Stewart and Alan Garrow. A copy of `Douglas Bader, The Biography of the Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot`, by John Frayn Turner, reprinted by Pen & Sword Aviation, 2009, signed on title by the author and `Dowding and the Battle of Britain`, by Robert Wright, 1st ed., 1969, signed on flyleaf by Douglas Bader and dated 1970, both vols. in d.j. The interview commences with Bader briefly outlining his career - left school at eighteen and joined the Royal Air Force, commissioned in 1930, accident on December 14 1931, lost both legs, invalided out of the RAF in 1933 and joined Shell. By 1938 it was obvious that war was coming, Bader wrote to the Air Ministry asking to be put on the Reserve and received a reply saying that in the event of a war they would be only too pleased of his services providing he was passed fit to fly. Bader then moves on to his post war career - retired again from the Air Force in 1946 and rejoined Shell. `Shell in their wisdom had said, `Whenever you go abroad, you can take your wife`. So my wife and I have flown all over the world in little aeroplanes, in big aeroplanes, either flying ourselves or being flown. We have no children`. He then complains about everybody being in a rush these days... `The politicians are trying to run the world firstly by television and secondly by getting into aeroplanes, flying over the Pole to Tokyo, getting there tired out and probably slightly intoxicated from drinking on the aeroplane. In any case, overfed and overstuffed and quite unable to perform one`s natural functions for at least two days after your arrive... this is why you get, I think, these politicians fouling everything up. If you`ll notice, you never get the Eastern politicians flying to New York or to London or to Paris to discuss things. It`s always the Western bloke who go to Moscow. So that our blokes are always at a disadvantage... The Concorde will improve things because it will only take you three hours to get to New York instead of at the moment six and a half - eight hours`. `What happened about Reach for the Sky was this... the point was taken by me that it wasn`t that I was lucky in the war and was a well-known fighter pilot. The fact was that I hadn`t got any legs and this is the whole reason that you`re interviewing me now... And it is obviously of interest and is going to help other people who have the same problems. So I said yes. You can`t write it yourself. It would be distasteful for a man of my age. It came out when I was forty-four years old. Even Churchill didn`t write anything about himself until very late in life and he was a man of fifty times my size... I met Kenneth only twice before he did the film... the first time I had lunch with him and the second time we played a round of golf together at Gleneagles... I said to him, `Look Ken if I can be of any help, do let me know`. But he said, `If I see too much of you I shall caricature you`. And he was absolutely dead right, of course`. Bader goes on to talk about being teetotal simply because he doesn`t like the tast of alcohol. He talks about the current state of communication and the fact that management don`t know half the people who are working for them `This is what`s causing strikes and all these things`. At school speech days Bader tells the youngsters `There`s only one bit of advice I would give you in life and that is whatever you do in life - make sure you can look yourself in the face after you`ve done it`. As an example of this advice, Bader recalls being asked by the Air Ministry in 1940 about tactics, `My view was at the time, not just now, that we could have done the Battle of Britain quite differently and much more effectively. But there you are. Pilot Officer Bader always knows better than the Commander in Chief!`. `Someone asked me once `How do you want to be remembered when you die? As a fighter pilot?` I said, look. I want to be remembered so that other people when they talk about me smile... I don`t give a damn about being a fighter pilot. The thing is, I want to leave warmth behind... `. `When I was in the nursing home after losing my legs in 1931 I had a lot of spare time naturally, lying about in bed, I used to read a lot of Swinburne because he was a versifier??... and the marvellous stuff written by that Canadian, Robert W. Service, about the Yukon... There`s another chap called Banjo Patterson from Australia... it`s all this rolling verse, it`s the Kipling-esque style... a poet doesn`t just reel off words. These chaps really had something to say. You must have read that one `Loxley Hall` by Tennyson... and that marvellous chap of World War One, Rupert Brooke... `. `I saw Smuts in South Africa in 1947. I never met Churchill until well after the war... a chum of mine had said, `You must give him a copy of Reach for the Sky`... so I took a copy with me and I had written in it `To the architect of victory from one of the few` and signed it... I said to him, `I feel very diffident about this, but I really would like you to have it`... he said, [here Bader does a very passable imitation of Churchill speaking] `Thank you very much indeed` then he added, `But you want to be careful, you know, because I can retaliate!` wonderful remark right off the cuff... what you`ve got to remember is that Churchill never lied. He never lied to us in the war. He didn`t say, `It`ll be alright.` The second CD ends with an interview with Thelma`s youngersister, Jill Lucas (n_e Addison) who lived with Douglas andThelma for a while at Bay House, near Bognor. She was there when `Woodie` Woodhall, Station Commander at Tangmere came to deliver the news that Bader was missing after the morning sortie (9August 1941). There followed a difficult few days, Thelma beginning to believe that Douglas would not return but then the news was heard on the radio that Douglas was a prisoner of war and that the Germans were offering safe conduct for a smallaircraft to fly to France and take him a spare set of legs. Jill also talks about Bader`s character and his philosophy to life, `he thinks you can do almost anything if you have the will andthe nerve...`.(1)
![SPORTING. `The Druid` [Henry Hall Dixon]. Silk and Scarlet, new edition, Vinton, London no date. Half crimson calf, engraved](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10054/2849449/938-20111028152715_468x382.jpg)
SPORTING. `The Druid` [Henry Hall Dixon]. Silk and Scarlet, new edition, Vinton, London no date. Half crimson calf, engraved frontispiece, vignette portrait title, octavo; three others by the same; and Lawley, Francis. Life and Times of `The Druid`, second edition, Vinton, London 1895, all uniformly bound, (5).
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